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Galenus: Aelius Galenus to his Greek family, Claudius Galenus to his Roman bosses (129-199 CE) - bio here - reported the continuing eruption of Mount Vesuvius on Aug 24
John Galt: was supposed to be on this list for May 30, but for some reason he picked up his entry, shrugged, and just walked away
Vasco de Gama (born circa 1460 in Sines, Portugal; died December 24 1524 in Cochin, India): Portugal’s Cristóbal Colón on May 5 - bio here
Rabban Gamliel II: his prayer quoted on Feb 1; his bio here. Gamliel 1, the grandson of Rabban Hillel, here; Gamliel III, his grandson, here; Gamliel IV here; Gamliel V here; Gamliel VI here; and that makes the first four hundred years of Talmudic Judaism, established at Yavneh, still thriving to this day.
Mabel Ganson (Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan) (1879-1962): turning me into a poacher and DHL into a mystic on March 2 – love this wesbite (shame about the dead links)!
Joseph Marie Garibaldi: “the living honour of Italy” on Oct 18; his full portrait here
Isabella Stewart Gardner: the museum is referenced and linked on June 2: museum here; bio here
Father Henry Garnet: hiding in Chastleton on Nov 5; on trial here; the plot here; him here
Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (born June 5 1850; died February 29 1908): bounty-hunting Billy the Kid on July 14 and Nov 23 - start here
Pietro di Antonio Dei, though he painted as Bartolomeo della Gatta (1448-1502): a minor contribution to the Sistine Chapel on Nov 1 - try here or here
Harold Charles Gatty (1903-57): navigating and circumnavigating on July 1 and the Sherpa Tenzings list
Martin Gayford: bustering Duchamp on April 11
Claude Lorrain, who was really Claude Gellée, and who is remembered simply as Claude in England, but as Le Lorrain in France: the last of the Classical painters, with Poussin, on April 15. For the “Barbizon” modernist movement which followed, see Paul Durand-Ruel on Feb 5. For Claude try here
Geoffrey of Monmouth (circa 1090-1155): though he liked to render his over-inflated ego as Galfridus Monemutensis or sometimes Galfridus Arturus, the latter just, presumably, to pretend that he was a biological descendant of what he had now turned into an authentic human; coming from Monmouth as he did, he also liked the Cymry version, though he would have called it Welsh: Galfridus Artur Gruffudd ap Arthur Sieffre o Fynwy. Creating pseudo-history on Jan 13
Father John Gerard: escaped from the Tower with a box of fireworks on Nov 5 - start here
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (1791-1824): discovered by père and mère Durand-Ruel, setting the tone for son Paul’s later career, on Feb 5 – G’s bio here:
Wilhelm Gesenius (born February 17 1786; died October 23 1842): the Bible in word-by-word explanations on Jan 7
Ludwig Heinrich Christian Geyer (born January 21 1779; died September 30 1821): was he or wasn’t he the father of Richard Wagner on Nov 19? Bio here
John of Ghent, rendered as Gaunt in English, as Gon in his native Flemish ; the second son of King Edward III, himself a Plantagenet, his descendants were the three Lancastrian Henries, IV, V and VI; supporting John Wycliffe on May 4; ransacked by revolting peasants on June 15 - bio here
Alexander Sheftelyevich Ghindin: playing Mussorgsky on June 2 (linked, so you can hear him): for more look here
Arthur John Gielgud (born April 14 1904; died May 21 2000): the perfect radio voice on Aug 8
William Schwenck Gilbert (born November 18 1836; died May 29 1911): and a funny coincidence that Brahe and the other Gilbert are also on a page about the Rudolphine Tables (July 24) and the involvement of Rosencrantz and Guildernstern: I wonder if the composer knew, and this was why he wanted to do the piece on Sept 2. More on the Gilbert version here, and with partner Arthur Sullivan on June 29
Rowan Fergus Meredith Gillespie: his sculpture of Gerard Manley Hopkins can be seen on July 28; his sculptures of the four Irish Nobel winners can be seen here
Albert Girard (1595-1632): introducing brackets and abbreviations into mathematics on March 29 – (it’s ‘ere, 100% of it) - which is to say: it can be found at that link, albeit with neither brackets nor abbreviations
Immanuel Giudeo, Immanuel of Rome: teaching Dante the sonnet on Jan 13
Marlis Glaser: her portrait of of Regina Jonas is on Jan 12
Philip Glass: one of Nadia Boulanger’s distinguished list of students on Aug 21; clearly he didn‘t learn much on Feb 9 - try here
John H Glenn: what on earth (well, not on earth, but the phrase is valid anyway) was a Yank doing on Russia’s Vostok 2 on Aug 7
Emma Goldman (June 27 1869-May 14, 1940): making George Padmore uncomfortable on June 28
William Godwin (3 March 1756–7 April 1836): one of Joseph Johnson's circle of radical thinkers on April 27 - try here
Theodorus (Theo) Van Gogh (1 May 1857-25 January 1891): failing to sell a single one of his older brother’s paintings on Feb 5 (the story of his more recent namesake can be read here)
Johannes Fabricius (1587-1616), or Johann Goldsmid really, from Friesland not Denmark - that was me, on the Jan 8 page, confusing him with Johan Christian Fabricius, a Danish zoologist of the 18th century. He and his dad saw their first sunspot through that recent invention the telescope on February 27 1611 (and no, Jules Verne, they didn’t see living creatures on the moon as well). And actually they may not have been the first either: Thomas Harriot (Hariot, Heriot) is now thought to have beaten them (see March 29)
Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (born March 30 1909; died November 3 2001): "The Story Of Art" is on Feb 5; plus a passing mention on Aug 20
Francisco Sánchez Gómez (Paco di Lucia) (born December 21 1947; died February 25 2014); Flamenco, but mostly Jazz Fusion, on June 12
Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba, three of the “witches” of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, are all hanging from their gallows on Feb 29; but you will also find Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes and Rebecca Nurse on July 19, Arthur Miller’s retelling of their story on Oct 17, and the full tale of the calumny here
Charles George Gordon (born January 28 1833; doed January 26 1885): one of the destroyers of Yuan Ming Yuan on Jan 11; and yet still very much amongst the “Heroes” on Sept 29: Charles George Gordon of Khartoum, or “Chinese Gordon”, or “Gordon Pasha” - in other words, another British imperialist who spent his life beating up people in countries where he had no business being except maybe as a tourist, and is regarded as a hero for having done so. I shall add him to the GER page, but I am also leaving here to make sure the blog carries this message firmly and clearly. Maybe even rename Sept 29 as “anti-heroes” day, or “Heroes - or Anti-Heroes - Day?”
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, pseudonymed as Anna Akhmatova, an Akhmatova being “a rare yellow Hawaiian honeycreeper, Hemignathus munroi, having a long slender down-curved upper bill and a short straight lower bill” according to Collins’ dictionary; though elsewhere I read that “Akhmatova is a patronymic coming from Akhmat, which is a Tatar name. Akhmat is a form of Ahmad. It is possible that Anna Akhmatova's family were Keräşen Tatars. Keräşens are a subgroup of Tatars - they are the descendants of Tatars that converted from Islam to Christianity after Russia conquered the Tatar khanates. (The Tatar people are fairly obscure outside of Russia, but they are actually the largest non-Russian group in Russia. Most of them are Muslim. They tend to use different names - a lot of feminine Tatar names end in consonants, whereas Russian girls' names almost always end in A.) Other Keräşen Tatars include the House of Yusupov.” So now we know. One of Victor Serge’s poets on Aug 20
Karl Heinrich Graf: goes with Wellhausen, Bultmann and Dibelius on Oct 10 as one of the founders of modern Bible Criticism (click here); he published his contribution, “The Historical Books of the Old Testament”, in 1866; but all of it is really just another Christian attempt to deal with the inconveniences of proper textual study, and to uphold its own ideology against the evidence.
Susan Graham (Sue Mingus, wife of Charlie) (born April 2 1930; died September 24 2022): heading for the Ganges on Jan 5 - click here for her obituary
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, but more importantly the father of Queen Jane (Lady Jane Grey-Dudley) on July 19
Arthur Joseph Griffith in Aenglish, Art Seosamh Ó Gríobhtha in Eirish (born March 31 1871; died August 12 1922): Easter Uprising on Sept 1, founded Sinn Féin on April 24 and the Eirish page - more here
Wm. C. Grimes - a rather minor Oklahoma politician, so not obvious why he was writing about the Wandering Jew on March 11; and indeed he wasn’t, it was Wm C Prime (William Cowper Prime, October 31 1825–February 12 1905: click here), but Mark Twain parodied him as Grimes, one “Innocent Abroad” mocking another - click here. The Wandering Jew can be found on the very next date, March 12. For Grimes, click here.
General Leslie Groves (born August 17 1896; died July 13 1970): preparing the hard rain on April 22. An officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, he oversaw the construction of the Pentagon, and was the man who chose Robert Oppenheimer as the chief, as well as Los Alamos as the site, and officially he was head of the project though “Oppie” directed the physics. So surely he belongs on the GER page!!
Herschel Feibel Grynspan (that’s הערשל פײַבל גרינשפּאן in Yiddish): triggering Kristallnacht on March 19; there is already a link on the blog-page if you want to know more
Tommaso dei Guardati (1410-1475), who published his collections of short stories under the pseudonym Masuccio Salernitano, one of which, “Mariotto and Ganozza”, rewritten by Luigi da Porto under the changed names of “Giuletta e Romeo”, provided Burglar Bill with a primary source for a play on Jan 30 – more here
Vicente Guedes, as well as Bernardo Soares, on Nov 30, are both, and definitely, pseudonyms for Fernando Pessoa; Richard Zenith, Iain Watson, Alfred MacAdam and Margaret Jull Costa, on the same page, sound disquietingly like pseudonyms, so I am assuming that they too are heteronyms of Pessoa, and I am therefore listing them all together here
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev: reaching his Acme on Aug 20 - bio here (not to be confused with the dissident Soviet historian Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev, who does not yet have any mention but this one on this blog: click here for more on him from his disciples; here for a more neutral view; and why am I mentioning him? because Nikolai Stepanovich was his father, and Anna Akhmatova his mother)
Yaşar Gün: the Turkish husband of whistleblower Katharine on Feb 23
Thomas Guy (born somewhen in 1644; died December 27 1724): bio here, and then decide if he belongs on the GER list for transporting slaves, or among the heroes for giving so much of his wealth to saving lives through hospitals? the London hospital that bears his name can be found providing Keats with lunch on Feb 23
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